In The Garden
Most of us have been visiting our neighbours' gardens to see their irises, and I have come away from a succession of such visits with one quite definite impression. The iris is......
Charing Cross Tomatoes The Hall, So To Call It, Over
the underground railway at Charing Cross, becomes a famous centre of pictorial propaganda. It is about to be used for preaching the merits of that popular fruit, the tomato ;......
An Odd Nest
Not only birds find strange nesting sites. Desultory search in a clump of aucubas discovered a nest that bore some resemblance to a wren's that had half fallen forward. There......
Freakish Experiments
An ingenious gardener of my acquaintance, who delighted in freakish experiments, once showed me a tomato growing on the top of a potato on which he had grafted it. The idea is......
Country Life
Oxford Trees If any one wants advice as to the best trees or bushes or hedge to plant he might do worse than apply to the Oxford Preservation Trust which becomes in this regard......
Bird And Car
I saw last Bank Holiday an odd illustration of a charming verse of one of E. V. Lucas's most charming poems, written, so far as I remember, in answer to an ecstatic poem on "......
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